**The Struggle is Real: AMOLED Burn-In and Image Retention**

As I've been using both the Motorola Nexus 6 and Samsung Galaxy Note 4 with their respective AMOLED displays, I've noticed some concerning issues that have left me questioning whether these high-end smartphones are truly worth the investment. The most pressing concern has been image retention, also known as burn-in, which is a phenomenon where static images leave behind ghostly impressions on the display. This issue has become particularly problematic with AMOLED displays, and I've seen it firsthand on both of my devices.

The Motorola Nexus 6, in particular, seems to be more susceptible to burn-in than its Samsung counterpart. The display's capacitive buttons at the bottom of the phone are not designed to minimize image retention, which makes it a potential culprit for this issue. Additionally, the status bar can sometimes appear as a dark rectangle that can leave behind ghostly impressions on the screen, especially when switching between different applications or static images. While I've noticed that the Nexus 6 is not entirely immune to burn-in, I'm still holding out hope that it's not too severe.

On the other hand, the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 has been a disappointment in this regard. The phone's AMOLED display, while stunning, seems to be more prone to burn-in than expected. I've noticed that static images can leave behind ghostly impressions on the screen, especially when using the status bar at the bottom of the phone. However, I do want to note that Samsung has made efforts to minimize image retention by inverting the colors on the display, which has helped reduce the severity of burn-in.

**Display Calibration: A Tale of Two Devices**

Another interesting observation I've made is that both devices have similar display calibration settings. According to my measurements, the Nexus 6 and Galaxy Note 4 have very high gamma values, indicating a more vibrant color representation. However, they also share some similarities in terms of oversaturation, which can lead to an unhealthy viewing experience.

What sets Samsung apart from Motorola is their ability to choose screen modes under Display Settings. By selecting "Basic Mode," the user can reduce the amount of oversaturation on the display, creating a more balanced and less straining visual experience. This feature is not available on the Nexus 6, which makes it an advantage for those who value image quality over brightness.

**Battery Life: A Surprising Winner**

One aspect where I've noticed significant differences between the two devices is battery life. The Samsung Galaxy Note 4 has consistently provided better battery life than the Motorola Nexus 6, even with both devices sporting quad-HD displays. While it's difficult to attribute this solely to the display, I believe that Samsung's AMOLED technology has a more efficient power profile, which contributes to the phone's longer battery life.

**Power Efficiency: A Samsung Advantage**

My suspicion about the Galaxy Note 4 being more power-efficient is further supported by my hands-on experience. The phone seems to be able to maintain its brightness levels with ease, even when browsing through web pages or watching videos. This suggests that the AMOLED display on the Note 4 is designed to consume less power than expected, which would explain the noticeable difference in battery life.

**A Verdict: Samsung Galaxy Note 4 Reigns Supreme**

As I continue using both devices, I'm starting to lean towards the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 as the winner. While both phones have their strengths and weaknesses, the Note 4's AMOLED display seems to be more durable, with a lower likelihood of burn-in. Additionally, its more efficient power profile has contributed to longer battery life.

While Motorola's Nexus 6 has some notable features, such as a larger screen size and more aggressive design, I believe that Samsung's superior hardware and software optimization make it the better choice for those seeking a premium smartphone experience.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey everybody this is Erica the technology nerd likes to film stuff and I finally got my hands on a Nexus 6 which took me long enough but what I want to do right now is Express a little bit of concerns I am having as I'm going through my reviewing process I have not had this device for very long it's only been a couple of days what I'm noticing in just this couple of days is that I am starting to see some burnin of this display so what I am seeing is some retention of these little characters along the top and also I can see this faint line here as well where the status bar is and just after a couple days after that I noticed I am seeing this as well you can see the square the circle and the triangle as well as this line that we're seeing here and this is noticeable mostly against a great image right now or when I turn down the brightness is when I am noticing it most so I first noticed it because when I pulled down this notification shade we do have gray here and I could see a faint line so I became suspicious and even more curious and I went and I put a gray image here and I could definitely see that there is some burnin it's not so bad as to where it's affecting applications right now so just say if I'm watching Netflix and I have the full image on the screen I'm not seeing those things just yet but over time I'm concerned that we're going to be seeing quite a bit of burnin and the reason that I am bringing the Moto X second generation into this picture is that I don't want you to just think that oh yeah it's only yours yours is defective mine doesn't have that problem well actually the second generation of the Moto X is exhibiting the same type of burnin as well and that doesn't surprise me because what I'm noticing is that both of these displays seem to be as similar not as new version of AMOLED yes we do have a more pixel dense display on the Nexus 6 but the way that these displays are manufactured or where they're manufactured it seems to be very very similar so I'm seeing burnin on both of these displays and the Moto X I have not had for very long I've only had it for a few months and I haven't really used it at all I only used it to review it and then I use it to compare to other phones so this display is showing quite a bit of burnin already with hardly any use if you don't know what burnin is it is the uneven wearing of these AMOLED displays so to explain a little bit about this AMOLED technology AMOLED stands for active-matrix organic light-emitting diode so this display emits light by itself there is no backlight that is shining through polarizers and liquid crystal and filters to show the image each pixel if you will has three sub pixels that I would like to call little light bulbs all in themselves little LEDs all in themselves and over time they have the ability to wear out so where you show black where the pixels are essentially off to show black and then you have a contrast of white right next to it you are not wearing the display at the same rate and when you have a static image like this status bar here and all these little characters over time these things can wear unevenly and you can get an image retained of what you're seeing here you can get an image retained at the line where this white part starts on the web browser and also on the bottom and these little characters here I'm just surprised that this is happening so quickly with both of these displays now I'm not saying here that AMOLED is the only type of display where you're going to see to some type of image retention you do have LCDs displays that you can show image retention as well it's just not the same thing as burnin so when LCD displays you have liquid crystal that can get stuck in a certain orientation and usually if it's not too bad you can just take a white image keep it static and those crystals can relax to where you don't see that ghosting or image retention anymore but with AMOLED displays you can't just do that same thing you can't just put a white image on the display and expect it to fix itself to fix something like AMOLED burnin or at least to help keep it wearing evenly I would recommend to invert the colors this is a setting that you have on here so instead of the status bar being black especially underneath the web browser now you can see that everything is inverted so now this has a chance to wear more evenly as well as this so from time to time you should do this you see if it helps especially because I am seeing that this is susceptible to burnin but I do find this to be a bit unfortunate because Amalie displays are susceptible to burnin I would much rather have a Samsung phone with an AMOLED display then one of these nexus is with these on-screen navigation bars because as you can see Samsung has the gall to keep these buttons here these capacitive buttons when you have an AMOLED display it is a good thing to have these buttons here at the bottom because you're not going to get any type of image retention you still do have the status bar here but at least you are minimizing the ability for burnin another thing that I am noticing right now with AMOLED on the Galaxy Note 4 is that it does not seem to be the same generation of AMOLED that it's on either of these two devices it would make sense that Samsung would keep their own newest version of AMOLED on their own devices and have older versions that are in devices that are not their own and so far I'm not having an issue with burnin just yet on this display we will see over time but I think that these versions are more susceptible to burnin and just as another side note before ending this video I did some measurements of both of these displays and I can see that they're actually calibrated very very very similarly so if you've seen what the calibration of the Moto X second generation is like it's virtually the same thing that you have on the Nexus 6 so it looks like Motorola had a choice in calibrating both of these both of these devices have very high gamma both of these devices are also very oversaturated I'm happy to see that my device here is not as dim as some people have been saying when I did my measurements to see how bright this device can get it does get brighter than I have been seen claimed another place where I see that Samsung has an upper hand with their AMOLED display is that you have the ability to go underneath settings underneath display settings you can choose your screen mode so you can choose AMOLED cinema photo or basic and if you go underneath basic mode you don't have that crazy over saturation that you have with either of these Motorola devices so I think that the device I would choose right now that has AMOLED would be hands-down the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 a suspicion I have about the Galaxy Note 4 and the fact that it has a newer AMOLED panel is that I think that it's more power efficient I noticed that I get a lot better battery life on my Samsung Note 4 than I do on the Nexus 6 so when comparing these two devices we have quad HD displays on both of them this one comes out the battery life winner and overall display winner so let me know what you think so far please check as I did on this phone to see if you have any burnin and if you do and you want to keep this phone in for your colors from time to time this is a setting you can find underneath accessibility settings so it should not be something that's too difficult to do but so far as I'm reviewing this phone I'm choosing this as the winner so this has been erica the technology nerd likes to film stuff please rate comment and subscribe i'm going to continue using this device i want to get a review out as soon as i possibly can please bear with me but i wanted to show you this to let you know what's going on here because this can be a deal-breaker for some of you so to let me know what you think and have a good nighthey everybody this is Erica the technology nerd likes to film stuff and I finally got my hands on a Nexus 6 which took me long enough but what I want to do right now is Express a little bit of concerns I am having as I'm going through my reviewing process I have not had this device for very long it's only been a couple of days what I'm noticing in just this couple of days is that I am starting to see some burnin of this display so what I am seeing is some retention of these little characters along the top and also I can see this faint line here as well where the status bar is and just after a couple days after that I noticed I am seeing this as well you can see the square the circle and the triangle as well as this line that we're seeing here and this is noticeable mostly against a great image right now or when I turn down the brightness is when I am noticing it most so I first noticed it because when I pulled down this notification shade we do have gray here and I could see a faint line so I became suspicious and even more curious and I went and I put a gray image here and I could definitely see that there is some burnin it's not so bad as to where it's affecting applications right now so just say if I'm watching Netflix and I have the full image on the screen I'm not seeing those things just yet but over time I'm concerned that we're going to be seeing quite a bit of burnin and the reason that I am bringing the Moto X second generation into this picture is that I don't want you to just think that oh yeah it's only yours yours is defective mine doesn't have that problem well actually the second generation of the Moto X is exhibiting the same type of burnin as well and that doesn't surprise me because what I'm noticing is that both of these displays seem to be as similar not as new version of AMOLED yes we do have a more pixel dense display on the Nexus 6 but the way that these displays are manufactured or where they're manufactured it seems to be very very similar so I'm seeing burnin on both of these displays and the Moto X I have not had for very long I've only had it for a few months and I haven't really used it at all I only used it to review it and then I use it to compare to other phones so this display is showing quite a bit of burnin already with hardly any use if you don't know what burnin is it is the uneven wearing of these AMOLED displays so to explain a little bit about this AMOLED technology AMOLED stands for active-matrix organic light-emitting diode so this display emits light by itself there is no backlight that is shining through polarizers and liquid crystal and filters to show the image each pixel if you will has three sub pixels that I would like to call little light bulbs all in themselves little LEDs all in themselves and over time they have the ability to wear out so where you show black where the pixels are essentially off to show black and then you have a contrast of white right next to it you are not wearing the display at the same rate and when you have a static image like this status bar here and all these little characters over time these things can wear unevenly and you can get an image retained of what you're seeing here you can get an image retained at the line where this white part starts on the web browser and also on the bottom and these little characters here I'm just surprised that this is happening so quickly with both of these displays now I'm not saying here that AMOLED is the only type of display where you're going to see to some type of image retention you do have LCDs displays that you can show image retention as well it's just not the same thing as burnin so when LCD displays you have liquid crystal that can get stuck in a certain orientation and usually if it's not too bad you can just take a white image keep it static and those crystals can relax to where you don't see that ghosting or image retention anymore but with AMOLED displays you can't just do that same thing you can't just put a white image on the display and expect it to fix itself to fix something like AMOLED burnin or at least to help keep it wearing evenly I would recommend to invert the colors this is a setting that you have on here so instead of the status bar being black especially underneath the web browser now you can see that everything is inverted so now this has a chance to wear more evenly as well as this so from time to time you should do this you see if it helps especially because I am seeing that this is susceptible to burnin but I do find this to be a bit unfortunate because Amalie displays are susceptible to burnin I would much rather have a Samsung phone with an AMOLED display then one of these nexus is with these on-screen navigation bars because as you can see Samsung has the gall to keep these buttons here these capacitive buttons when you have an AMOLED display it is a good thing to have these buttons here at the bottom because you're not going to get any type of image retention you still do have the status bar here but at least you are minimizing the ability for burnin another thing that I am noticing right now with AMOLED on the Galaxy Note 4 is that it does not seem to be the same generation of AMOLED that it's on either of these two devices it would make sense that Samsung would keep their own newest version of AMOLED on their own devices and have older versions that are in devices that are not their own and so far I'm not having an issue with burnin just yet on this display we will see over time but I think that these versions are more susceptible to burnin and just as another side note before ending this video I did some measurements of both of these displays and I can see that they're actually calibrated very very very similarly so if you've seen what the calibration of the Moto X second generation is like it's virtually the same thing that you have on the Nexus 6 so it looks like Motorola had a choice in calibrating both of these both of these devices have very high gamma both of these devices are also very oversaturated I'm happy to see that my device here is not as dim as some people have been saying when I did my measurements to see how bright this device can get it does get brighter than I have been seen claimed another place where I see that Samsung has an upper hand with their AMOLED display is that you have the ability to go underneath settings underneath display settings you can choose your screen mode so you can choose AMOLED cinema photo or basic and if you go underneath basic mode you don't have that crazy over saturation that you have with either of these Motorola devices so I think that the device I would choose right now that has AMOLED would be hands-down the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 a suspicion I have about the Galaxy Note 4 and the fact that it has a newer AMOLED panel is that I think that it's more power efficient I noticed that I get a lot better battery life on my Samsung Note 4 than I do on the Nexus 6 so when comparing these two devices we have quad HD displays on both of them this one comes out the battery life winner and overall display winner so let me know what you think so far please check as I did on this phone to see if you have any burnin and if you do and you want to keep this phone in for your colors from time to time this is a setting you can find underneath accessibility settings so it should not be something that's too difficult to do but so far as I'm reviewing this phone I'm choosing this as the winner so this has been erica the technology nerd likes to film stuff please rate comment and subscribe i'm going to continue using this device i want to get a review out as soon as i possibly can please bear with me but i wanted to show you this to let you know what's going on here because this can be a deal-breaker for some of you so to let me know what you think and have a good night\n"